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The legal document available for download below constitutes the formal designation of the monument under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979. The additional details provided on this page are provided for information purposes only and do not form part of the designation. Historic Environment Scotland accepts no liability for any loss or damages arising from reliance on any inaccuracies within this additional information.

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Summary

Description

The monument is the remains of an enclosed settlement dating probably to the Iron Age (between 500 BC and AD 200). The monument is visible as cropmarks recorded on oblique aerial photographs. This approximately square enclosure lies at around 80m OD.

The cropmarks indicate that the enclosure ditch is up to 5m wide and defines an area measuring about 60m north to south by at least 60m transversely. The entrance to the enclosure is on the east side. A single large roundhouse is visible in the southwest quadrant of the enclosure.

The scheduled area includes the remains described above and an area around them within which evidence relating to the monument's construction, use and abandonment is expected to survive, as shown in red on the accompanying map. The monument was first scheduled in 1961, but the documentation did not meet current standards: the present amendment rectifies this.

Statement of National Importance

The monument is of national importance because of its potential to make a significant addition to our understanding of later Iron Age and Roman period settlement. This monument is a well-preserved example of a key component of the late Iron Age landscape: the rectilinear enclosed farmstead. The ditches have high potential to contain significant archaeological deposits which, together with the roundhouse and other features in the interior, can tell us much about the nature and agricultural basis of later prehistoric settlement in southwest Scotland. Its importance is significantly enhanced by its siting within a local concentration of prehistoric and Roman monuments, which can enhance our understanding of social and economic change in a key period of prehistory. Our understanding of the distribution and character of late Iron Age settlements would be diminished if this monument was to be lost or damaged.

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About Scheduled Monuments

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Scheduling is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for monuments and archaeological sites of national importance as set out in the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979.

We schedule sites and monuments that are found to be of national importance using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

Scheduled monument records provide an indication of the national importance of the scheduled monument which has been identified by the description and map. The description and map (see ‘legal documents’ above) showing the scheduled area is the designation of the monument under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979. The statement of national importance and additional information provided are supplementary and provided for general information purposes only. Historic Environment Scotland accepts no liability for any loss or damages arising from reliance on any inaccuracies within the statement of national importance or additional information. These records are not definitive historical or archaeological accounts or a complete description of the monument(s).

The format of scheduled monument records has changed over time. Earlier records will usually be brief. Some information will not have been recorded and the map will not be to current standards. Even if what is described and what is mapped has changed, the monument is still scheduled.

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